January-February 2020

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Mirror, mirror, tell me if you exist

To explain the cosmos' greatest mysteries, researchers suggest the existence of a mirror world, housed within our universe. Ready for a brain cramp?

Quebec's 10 discoveries of the year

Ecology, biology, oncology, neuroscience, chemistry: discover the major breakthroughs made by Quebec researchers in 2019 that impressed our jury.

Science against early marriage

In Lebanon, child marriages are on the rise in Syrian refugee communities. Committed researchers are testing a strategy to counter this practice.

Life, version 2.0

Making new genes, rewriting entire genomes, rethinking life itself. All this is now possible thanks to synthetic biology.

The cabinet of curiosities

How do researchers use everyday objects to carry out their experiments?

At one with the music

Can our nervous system produce a melody? Biomusic makes it possible.

When bodies come alive

Against all odds, a corpse's limbs continue to move months after death.

A dogged assistant

Is there a place for service dogs in laboratories? One student researcher is convinced.

An uninhabitable land: an avoidable fate?

Interview with David Wallace-Wells, author of the best-selling essay on climate change, The Uninhabitable Earth.

Karim Zaghib, leading expert in lithium batteries

His work could spell the end of the gasoline-powered car.

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